Good Riddance 2023, Part II

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• Globalists invert the rights of first nations, aiming to seize resources

• Hyper- or post-empire with inter-galactic cultural references

• Or… wait for the alien invasion

• Age old conflict of nomad and settler plays out in real time

• Darwinism’s legacy leaches into blood and soil, and ethno-nationalism

• UN and globalists push counter movement to separate people from land

• Maui, like Gaza, encapsulates every lesson of four years’ democide

• Justice remains out of reach until the public can admit it’s been lied to

• Brazil, Argentina see the narrative of dictatorship inverted

• BRICS welcomes five new members at the start of 2024

• Moral values vs inclusive capitalism: dynamic, sustainable, trusted

• Trust cannot be enforced - ay, there’s the rub

One fault of the “interdependent, interconnected” globalist project is that it provides a template to fill all levels of bureaucracy with obedient functionaries, but it also exposes the globalist playbook, since the answer to every problem is always the same: sustainable development goals and environmental and social governance.

Good Riddance 2023, Part I - What changed and where we are heading (Dec 31, 2023)

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The following is a digest of articles written in 2023. It does not attempt to develop an argument but provide a compendium of articles that described a turbulent year.

Many are prescient, and together they portray the multiple directions from which the globalists tried to manipulate events and perceptions.

Happy New Year!

Jan 4, 2024

It’s all very well looking to the future to make the world a better place. But that’s not much use if you are somebody’s prey, and you fail to identify the predator.

It is a Hollywood trope: the hapless victim screams; people run straight ahead in a line; the ghoul picks them off, starting with the stragglers, one by one.

In February I observed that the threat of nuclear annihilation, a mainstay of the 1960s up to the 80s, had strangely disappeared.

The deep state loves the twin bogeymen of apocalyptic destruction and plague, so why relinquish the threat of doomsday or armageddon? Even with the demise of the Soviet Union the main nuclear power remained the one Westerners are told to fear: Russia.

Oppenheimer-geddon

One possible answer is that the intelligence services were losing control of the nuclear narrative.

The British public reacted to the threat of nuclear war not by cowering but by marching at Aldermaston and lifting the Labour Party, linked to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, high in the polls. MI5 and the SIS went into overdrive to undermine prime minister Harold Wilson and Labour leader Michael Foot.

That’s the problem with stoking fear: it can and does get out of hand. Mutually Assured Destruction And The Environmental Agenda (Feb 13, 2023)

In summer 2023 the film Oppenheimer would reinflate the mushroom balloon, just as the British television series Utopia (2013) and countless plague fantasies had primed the world for coronavirus.

Oppenheimer Film Pulls Focus On Nuclear Annihilation: Mutually Assured Destruction makes a belated come back (Jul 21, 2023)

Why the focus on mass annihilation anyway?

Blood and soil

The Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) in his Principles of Geology (1830-33) prepared the ground for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution which is clearly universalist. From Darwin we got eugenics-genetics as the new secular religion to justify the European bankers and imperialists subjugating the world — and more importantly to indoctrinate the empires’ enforcers. His best known adherents were Francis Galton and Thomas Malthus.

He also informed Max Nordau, the co-founder of Zionism with Theodor Herzl. Nordau’s work post-dated Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species (1859) but took its cue from the Enlightenment debate in the late 1700s over physiocracy, or the economic and social primacy of agriculture and landholding. (The starting point of what became social Darwinism is always a subjective choice).

It foreshadowed the Arts and Crafts movement of a century later in its criticism of the debilitating effects of industrial production and the centralizing control of the guilds, while still favouring free trade.

The stress on movement (what became the migration of Europeans) while envisaging people and culture tied to the land might seem contradictory. How can people attached to the land move freely? Herder nomads and farmer villagers been rivals down the aeons.

Yet this paradox of migration and a people tied to the land is central to national socialism and Zionism: Blut und Boden. We see the consequences playing out in Gaza. Random Duels With Probability (Feb 20, 2023)

The seemingly contrary drive to separate people from land is a central plank of the United Nations and the globalists.

Removal, depopulation, cleansing

At the same time people Follow The Consensus To Their Demise - First of a series on depopulation (Aug 9, 2023).

This is the trick of Rockefeller/Gates schooling: programming literally trains us how to respond when we hear specific words. Is it any surprise that, when we emerge belatedly from years of patterning to seek our own path, we recoil from certain words, sounds, challenges or perceived threats?

Schooling is not the same as education; it keeps us in the piscene equivalent of a holding pattern for at least a quarter of our lives. Is it a surprise that those who profit from kleptocracy are the same who cramp the curriculum? The Kidnapping Of Mind, Body & Soul (Jul 27, 2022)

Chartered psychopaths

The first corporations were intended to be short-lived entities, chartered to exploit a particular opportunity. Yet the East India Company (founded in 1599; incorporated 1600) was identified as inimical to humanity in its day, by no lesser luminaries than Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.

The destructive — some argue, psychopathic — nature of the corporation was born out of the slavery and colonialism of the European empires. Pirates, Privateers And Merchant Adventurers (Aug 15)

Bonfire of rules

We had just written about corporate buckaneers when they struck in the Hawaiian islands. Whatever caused the historic capital of Lahaina, home to 12,000 people, to burn the ground, everything about the response, as with Covid, defied the official narrative. Hawaii Islanders Hit With New Normal (Aug 16)

It was clear within a day: Maui Land Grab Explains The Great Reset (Aug 17, 2023). Four months later many native Hawaiians were no closer to regaining access to their land and what remained of their property. Maui Homeless Camp Out On Beaches (Dec 10, 2023).

There have been such fires down the centuries, with suspicious beginnings and criminal outcomes. A Tale Of Two Charles': 1666 And Build Back Better (Jun 12, 2023).

Just as dozens of fires broke out simultaneously across Canada, and government did little to help — rejecting offers of help from retired firemen and foresters; ignoring their forensic expertise; barely investigating arson — the Great Fire Of London followed a similar pattern.

Maui, like Gaza, has brought together every experience of the past four years, and then some.

So, too, did the arrest of a New Zealand whistle-blower, Barry Young, who leaked data suggesting high rates of death immediately after receiving the notorious shot.

Such themes include the readiness of governments to abandon their own populations, with flagrant disregard for popular opinion, let alone representation; imposing censorship and groupthink; with every sign that bureaucrats answer to higher powers.

From New Zealand To Gaza; The Coof Shot And Genocide (Dec 4, 2023)

Maui meet Gaza

The defining events of 2023 would turn out to be land grabs. They would be the most inhumane acts, running counter to every restraint on power.

When president Biden said he was “laser focused” on Maui, he not only stoked talk that the Hawaii fires had been started deliberately. He prefigured the neglect that would characterise the government’s failure to care for those killed and made homeless.

It was a callous and premeditated disregard that fanned suspicions of ulterior motives, regardless of what cause the fires. There were darker undertones: Maui’s Children - Smart Cities And Sex Trafficking (Aug 25, 2023).

Before Maui, before British Columbia, before Gaza… was a United Nations project with a name so ugly it could not be a mistake: UNDRIP. United Nations Land Grab - First nations used as proxies by oligarchs (Jun 2, 2023)

Indigenous scams

This is a scheme to seize land under the pretext of protecting the rights of first nations and aboriginals:

• Enact laws that expropriate settlers like European Canadians, Australians or New Zealanders;

• Place those lands in the custody of “assemblies” that have no constitutional authority;

• The implication being that those assemblies will do the bidding of owner-investors at a later date.

The Australian government pulled out every stop to try to force through “the Voice to Parliament” but the timing was poor. Some spotted that “wildfires” were accompanied by bureaucratic land grabs; others simply feared for their property rights; while first nations realised it was all about Indigenous People Hijacked By Globalists (Aug 18, 2023).

One fault of the “interdependent, interconnected” globalist project is that it provides a template to fill all levels of bureaucracy with obedient functionaries, but it also exposes the globalist playbook, since the answer to every problem is always the same: sustainable development goals and environmental and social governance.

Some other features pop up, like depopulation, human trafficking, population transfer and unexplained waves of migration of unaccompanied children and men of military age. These long running themes linked events in different regions: depopulation, in particular.

Israel’s diplomacy

Taking a different tack from financial and military implosion, China scored the biggest diplomatic coup of the year, by negotiating Saudi-Iran accord.

Israel responded with a flurry of Central Asian diplomacy, possibly with the aim of re-isolating Iran. U.S. Ramps Up Sanctions Effort - Israel boosts Central Asian ties seeking to offset Saudi-Iran rapprochement (Apr 26, 2023)

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen visited Azerbaijan, following the opening of an Azeri embassy in Tel Aviv on Mar 29, the first embassy of a Shi’ite Muslim nation in the country. Previously Cohen had said the two countries had “agreed to form a unified front in the face of Iran.”

In the swift pace of events it is easy to miss the connections which the state corporate media works hard to obscure.

Israel sources about 30 per cent of its oil needs from Azerbaijan, and aims to expand trade currently at $200 million a year. Cohen led a large delegation that included 30 companies that operate in the fields of homeland security, cyber security, water issues and agriculture, including representatives from the Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Affairs Export Institute. Over 100 meetings were scheduled between the various companies and local counterparts and government officials, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Next, Israel’s foreign minister went on to Turkmenistan and opened Israel’s first embassy in the country.

It was the first time an Israel foreign minister had visited Turkmenistan since Shimon Peres in 1994, one year after Israel and Turkmenistan established diplomatic relations.

Six months later, freshly armed by Israel, which provides about 70 per cent of its military equipment according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Azerbaijan launched the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, aka Ngorno Karabahk, on Sep 19 and 20^th.

The Azeris had blockaed access to humanitarian aid from Armenia to the enclave, leaving the Lachin corridor as the only road. For seven months Azerbaijani activists, and then military, obstructed this last route, before forcing the population to flee.

Armenian template

The passive response to ethnic cleansing in Karabakh may have emboldened Israel in Gaza. As Avidan Freedman wrote in The Times of Israel (Aug 13, 2023) — using the skill of historical perspective to look backwards in order to inform the future — international silence over the Armenian genocide may have encouraged the Third Reich to do something similar to Jews.

Tragedy As Armenians Flee Karabakh - Yerevan yields Artsakh to Azerbaijan, Russia stands aside (Sep 26, 2023)

Reviewing this nine months later, it seems likely that the conflict in Gaza may include a sub-plot to try to split Saudi Arabia and the Iranians on either side of the Israel-Palestinian divide.

OPEC Eases Off The Gas; Powers New Alliance (Apr 3, 2023)

China’s opportunity

Beijing likes to secure supply but also favourable pricing, as seen in Russia’s agreement in 2014 to a 30-year contract for natural gas. The duo may use their leverage with Iran, which has sway in Iraq, to increase access to Baghdad’s bounty, after brokering a diplomatic embrace between Riyadh and Tehran. Simon Watkins wrote in Oil Price:

“Iran was told by a very high-ranking official from the Kremlin that: ‘By keeping the West out of energy deals in Iraq — and closer to the new Iran-Saudi axis — the end of Western hegemony in the Middle East will become the decisive chapter in the West’s final demise’.”

China Touts Peace As West's Monetary Woes Tempt War Hawks (Mar 14, 2023)

The Trilateral Commission met in India in March for its first global meeting, to launch an economic reset based on managed outcomes, doing away with a free-market based on growth and lower prices. Instead it would pursue industrial policy with an inflationary goal, rationing goods at an ever-higher cost.

At the same time the Chinese president arrived in Russia for a three-day state visit; his 40^th with president Vladimir Putin.

The objective, said president Xi Jinping was true multilateralism, to “promote multipolarity in the world, democratize international relations and promote global governance on a more just and rational track.”

It was a response to the corporate challenge to sovereign nations that has been accelerating for a century.

Xi Visits Putin: To NWO Or Not? Trilateral Commission delegate says 2023 is the first year of the New World Order (Mar 21, 2023) Xi-Putin, Bank Runs, New World Religion (Mar 24, 2023)

Criticise the Chinese or Russian state, but regard that which we are being offered as an alternative.

Fake democracy

The United Nations aims to expand the range of stakeholders. In 2021 the UN Sec Gen António Guterres launched what became the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS), with up to six new categories of stakeholder, but with no provision for governments. In 2018 the work of FOGGS was refocused towards putting together a new “Grand Narrative” for globalisation.

This is sister to the Great Narrative we heard earlier from the WEF — not very original, these globalists. Again the role of defining sustainable development goals (SDGs) is left to private think-tanks and foundations.

UN Agenda 21 and the communitarian Great Reset makes much talk about subsidiarity — the democratic idea that decisions should be made at the lowest level possible — which is a principle of the European Union. Yet it seems to mean in practice that national governments are subverted by local authorities, which in turn are infiltrated by pre-screened communitarian/UN21 apparatchiks.

See Britain’s Institute for Government which is financed by the Sainsbury grocery billionaires for how such Astroturfing works.

While fake assemblies are in the works, genuine communities are being uprooted. The Netherlands has the polder model, in which the wants and needs of villages, towns and society are negotiated. Of course it is more suited to a smaller once-homogeneous populations like Norway or Denmark but it survived even as the NL became more diverse: its pinnacle was the farmers.

Globalists Fake Divorce; Invert Narrative; Kill Dollar (Apr 1, 2023)

Rationing as famine

President Emmanuel Macron declared “the end of abundance.” He did not say what would replace it.

Confusion arises from the idea of a one-world government — the idea that globalists seek to rule the world from the League of Nations, the General Assembly of the United Nations or some successor body. As we see with the World Health Organisation, the intergovernmental institutions are merely the means of transfection of the globalist virus.

On one level, a virus is a metaphor for money. Their origin and impact are multitudinous, multifarious. The virus analogy leads some to believe that no governments can avoid being on team globalist — a canonical belief in much of the alt media.

Yet here there’s a split: the European aristocracy and Western finance capital are wedded to their historic methods of control; the legacy of empires and the ideologies composed to inculcate hundreds of thousands of administrators. Developing countries are seeking to forge a new economic model that claims to be less predatory.

Do you believe Putin when he says his objective is “strengthening traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, and preserve the cultural and historical heritage of the multinational people of Russia”?

Would you prefer he spoke in more secular tones? Perhaps.

But do you trust Lynn Forrester de Rothschild, with the support of Pope Francis, who says her Council on Inclusive Capitalism will “transform capitalism and make our economies and societies more inclusive, dynamic, sustainable and trusted"?

Who at least is talking common sense in plain terms?

Once the world has reached the point where freedom can only exist in theory — except in a ghetto or the Savage Reservation of Brave New World — freedom no longer exists in anything but name. The Western nations crow about democracy after it has long fled the nest.

Culture wars

America has refound its voice, or so it seemed for a while. Kennedy And America's Struggle For Its Soul - Dynast pitches traditional Democratic values (Apr 22, 2023)

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s presidential run might be viewed as a last stand by a part of the U.S. oligarchy that claims to feel some noblesse oblige, or social responsibiliy towards the mass of the population.

Samuel Huntington is known for his analysis that future wars would pit cultures rather than countries against one another — his “Clash of Civilizations” (1996). Seven hundred years earlier, during an era when kings claimed to rule by divine right, Henry of Huntingdon, a12th century historian, had written, in his “Historia Anglorum,” of how King Canute recognised the limits to Earthly authority.

Contrary to the popular idea that Canute tried to turn back the tide, his point was the opposite: he demonstrated to his courtiers that he had no power to stop the tide.

Canute illustrates in a way that anyone can grasp that the problem with today’s globalists is that they do not know when they’ve gone too far: they recognise no limits to their authority; they play God with humanity; they presume to re-invent the Earth.

As Sergei Brin, co-founder of Google, told Elon Musk, he wants AI (artificial intelligence) to rule. He dismissed Musk’s argument to his former friend that AI threatened human life. Brin accused Musk of “speciesism” — belief in the supposed superiority of humans to all other animal species.

We have strayed somewhat off track but the point is to show that we are not simply in a historical “pivot” as was claimed for the year 1913. Just as 110 years ago, powers and principalities are a match for the world.

Unfortunately RFK Jr fell into that same paradigm of Huntingdon culture wars.

Brazilian siren

When CIA bullhorn Time magazine describes Lula as “a beloved but controversial leftist former President” one is in the presence of blatant manipulation.

It strikes a disconsonant note with the events of 1961-64 when another leftist president with a support base in the trades union, João Goulart, was outsted with U.S. support. Like Lula da Silva, Goulart was not a communist, but his approach to agricultural reform provoked the landowners.

The U.S. has long opposed leftist governments in LatAm, including the military dictatorship of 1964-1985 against which Lula resisted. He aligned Brazil with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) rather than the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States (OAS).

After WW2 the U.S. made extensive use of Nazis to advise the governments of Latin America. The most famous was arguably Klaus Barbie, known as the Butcher of Lyon, who became in 1951 an adviser on torture to the government of Bolivia. In Chile a group of Nazis founded Colonia Dignidad which was reportedly used as a centre to torture dissidents during the regime of Augusto Pinochet.

Adolf Eichmann was living in Argentina, as was the Grey Wolf himself according to the Reuters journalist and author Gerrard Williams.

Judicial Overreach Mars Brazil's Election - Separation of powers has become a political plaything (Jan 11, 2023)

In Brazil it soon became clear that da Silva was not in charge. The head technocrat is one of Brazil’s top judges, Alexandre de Moraes. He rapidly evolved into Brazil’s version of Maximilien de Robespierre, the vanguard of the French Revolution, and a one-man censorship regime: judge, jury and executioner who arrests anyone who dares criticize the election or his person.

He arrested members of Congress, chased individuals into exile, and issued secret orders directed at six social media companies: Facebook, Rumble, Telegram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. The judge forbade protestors to block highways and obstruct public buildings.

The Left, in Brazil and abroad, cheered on a judge whom they not long before had despised for prosecuting former leftist president Dilma Rousseff. But now that he was persecuting their perceived enemies, they welcomed the methods of dictatorship.

Even The New York Times wrote that Brazil’s judicial regime was more authoritarian and repressive than anything under former president Jair Bolsonaro.

The Perón government was closely associated with Germany’s national socialist leadership. This year some of the same oligarch families backed another showman, this time a convert to Judaism. President-elect Javier Milei’s first public visit was to the grave of Lubavitcher rabbi Menachem Schneerson.

The sense of being played is never far away. Argentina’s President-Elect Milei Is An Enigma - Until you look at his WEF, Wallenberg and HSBC connections (Nov 20, 2023)

Talk of a Fourth Reich was a conspiracy theory a few short years ago; truthers such as Mae Brussell argued that the Nazi project had not been defeated but paradoxically had infiltrated the supposed victors.

It no longer seems so far fetched, though the protagonists are likely the corporate financiers who profited from the Reich rather than existing national socialists.

BRIC house

On the first day of 2024, the BRICS has welcomed in five new members: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, Iran and Ethiopia.

At its 15^th summit in South Africa, BRICS Dials It Up To 11 (Aug 28, 2023), president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the multipolar axis continued to grow as de-dollarization efforts accelerated around the world.

This disappointed gold bugs by not producing a consumer facing BRICS currency but it did propose a new means of trade and credit that bypasses those Trojan horses of Western finance capital, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Argentina’s new president Javier Milei in December said he would not be joining. Evidence mounts with every day that Milei is not the libertarian his supporters hoped for.

African rebirth

The birth of a new system will be neither clean nor easy, as demonstrated by Africa’s Rebellion, Hawaii’s Destruction And Smart Cities – former colonies say ‘non’ (Aug 31, 2023).

Coups in Gabon and Niger revealed the predatory nature of Western relations with Africa; also the weakness of colonial powers.

France has announced it is closing its embassy as well as withdrawing its troops from Niger. Since France and NATO destroyed Libya, Niger has replaced it as the “cork” in the bottle of African migration.

Niger was locked in deal to supply uranium to France’s nuclear industry that was deeply one-sided, with the French state squeezing both its African suppliers and French electricity customers.

There are some familiar bankers involved, too. Gabon is the world’s second largest producer of manganese used for steel making. The Rothschilds control about 65 per cent of it, through Comilog, the world’s 2nd-largest producer of the mineral.

The Rothschild mining company Eramet, a rapidly-growing, French-based mining and metallurgical group, has been under the control of the Rothschild family since the 19th century. It was founded in 1880 as Le Nickel, originally for the exploitation of nickel mines in New Caledonia, a French “special collectivity” in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

To those allergic to the individual naming of bankers, lay the name aside: just call it finance capital.

In Gabon, Comilog has two major bases: transporting manganese from the Moanda mine and sintering plant to Owendo sea port. From there it is shipped to processing plants in France, Norway, and the US.

Like Hawaii’s Deep State Billionaires (Sep 4, 2023) it can be hard to separate the interests of state and moguls, who serves whom, and who ultimately is on top. The story tends in at least five directions: the natives; the response of the State; who benefits; the billionaire residents of the islands; and the vested interests they serve.

Until the public can admit it’s been lied to, justice remains beyond reach.

“One more word about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any case always comes on the scene too late to give it... When philosophy paints its gray in gray, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's gray in gray it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”

—G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1820), preface.